Better Weight for a Better You (BABY): An Innovative Approach to Promoting a Healthy Weight Among Postpartum Overweight and Obese Black and Hispanic Women in Orange County WIC Program FL

An abstract of a study by Mesa et al, discussing a 6-month goal-based behavioral and cross cultural intervention for post-partum women, is presented. The project entitled Better weight for A Better You (BABY) seeks to promote healthy weight among 480 post-partum overweight and obese Black and Hispanic women. The 6-months intervention will consist of 25 weeks of class sessions using a modified version of the highly successful Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) a lifestyle intervention curriculum entitled Lifestyle Balance. In addition, researchers have learned that the program is not only impacting the individual participants but their entire families.